Some Spatial Anomaly news: Big Damn Heroics has reached Our Mrs Reynolds, the episode in which Mal gets married and Christina Hendricks gives a bravura performance.
There's also an article about a delete scene from the episode that's exclusive to patrons.
The Safe article has gone public.
This week on Spatial Anomaly, there's shooting, kidnapping and cattle rustling as we look at Safe, the episode which tests the definitions of crew and passengers. The Safe article is exclusive to patrons for the next seven days.
As if that weren't enough. We also have an article that is exclusive to patrons about the no less than four different opening narrations that were shown at the top of most episodes on their first broadcast. They aren't on the DVD and a great many people that love the show have never even seen them.
Meanwhile, the Shindig article is now available for public consumption.
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I probably haven't done enough to draw attention to the Patreon exclusive articles that I've been writing and posting each week. At this point, there are three articles about Firefly that remain steadfastly only available to Spatial Anomaly's patrons.
The first concerns the deleted scenes from the pilot episode, what they would have revealed about the characters and whether they should have been included in the episode as broadcast.
The second Patreon exclusive article is about Firefly episode orders. The differences between the order the episode were broadcast, production order and Joss Whedon's preferred order, and perhaps more importantly, why it matters.
And the third is a character profile of Badger. I'm going to to one of these for each of the recurring and regular characters.
The only way to read these three articles and any of the subsequent Patreon exclusives is to become a Patron, but I would imagine that the only way you would know whether that's something you want to do, is if you head on over and have a look at some of the free stuff and see if it takes your fancy.
Cliffhanger endings have always been an intrinsic part of Doctor Who, but since the show's return in 2005 the format has changed and there are fewer of them.
I've written an article for Hero Collector about them, a top ten of modern Doctor Who cliffhangers.
Pleasingly episodes from all five of the modern Doctors made the list.
As did those featuring Daleks, Cybermen and a number of incarnations of the Master, but which ones and in which order?
I wrote this about Doctor Who cliffhangers.
Today is Blue Monday. Apparently the most depressing day of the year.
I wrote this list of suggestions of uplifting sci-fi to help you beat the blues. Between them that's a seven hour schedule that's sure to cheer you up, however Blue your Monday is.
Big Damn Heroics has reached Shindig, as Mal tries to do business at a fancy party and finds himself duelling. Kaylee's frock, Mal's sense of honour and River's impression of Badger, it's all here for patrons of Spatial Anomaly.
In other news, Bushwhacked, the episode which shows us that Alliance bureaucracy can be as deadly as gorram Reavers, is now free to read for non-patrons. Please have a look and consider becoming a patron.
With one pilot done, Big Damn Heroics has moved onto the other. The co-pilot if you will: The Train Job.
The Train Job is a fantastic episode that seeks to introduce all the necessary elements from the other pilot without repeating itself. It's a tall order and it succeeds admirably. Let's do some crime.
The final performance of Twelfth Night, Or What You Voted For is online tonight at 7pm.
You can get a free ticket here.
Those of you with a prior engagement have missed it.
The first performance of Twelfth Night, Or What You Voted For is online tonight at 7pm.
You can get a free ticket here.
Those of you with a prior engagement please consider attending tomorrow.
I'm acting again. It's been a while.
I'm playing Antonio in an online version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which has been influenced by the recent departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, hence the Or What You Voted For.
Unlike Brexit it'll cost you nothing. It's on the 5th and 6th of January at 7pm.
You can get a free ticket here.
